page_title: Brown Brothers Tobacco Company
section_title: Company founding
hierarchical_section_title: Brown Brothers Tobacco Company / Company founding
caption_attribution_description: English: Detroit Free Press Advertisement 9 Aug 1885
context_page_description: Brown Brothers Tobacco Company, was located at 119 State Street in Detroit. The building was built for brothers, Robert Hamilton Brown and John Brown who founded a cigar manufacturing business which was, at one time, the largest cigar factory under one roof in the world. Brown Brothers were known for the following cigar brands: Newsboys, Cremo, Fontella, Carmencita, Evangeline and Detroit Free Press.
context_section_description: Robert Brown, born in Ohio of Irish descent, and his brother, John H. Brown, founded the firm. Robert was a Civil War veteran who received honorable discharge, having been a private in an Ohio regiment. In the late 1800s, Brown moved to Detroit and started a fire insurance, real estate and lumber business with his brother John (who had previously moved to Detroit) on Griswold Street in Detroit. They later started the cigar business on Monroe Avenue and John managed the enterprise.
caption: Detroit Free Press Advertisement 9 Aug 1885
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